"We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices."

-- James C. Collins

#Mistake Quotes #Choices Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.”

Source : Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.105, Penguin
“At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.”

Source : "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.
“A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.”
“I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.”
“I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.”
“In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.”
“I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.”

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